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The Mahabharata
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26 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in English and held by 1,019 libraries worldwide The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
Dance Black America
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13 editions published between 1984 and 2007 in English and held by 488 libraries worldwide Documents a four-day festival of dancers and dance companies held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The festival presented the oldest and the biggest to the newest and smallest Black companies and celebrated the evolution of Black dance from the sly parody of plantation quadrilles known as the Cakewalk to the contemporary sophistication of the Alvin Ailey Company.
Einstein on the beach the changing image of opera
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9 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in English and held by 374 libraries worldwide Through performance and rehearsal footage, and through interviews with composer Philip Glass and designer/director Robert Wilson, this film examines the opera Einstein on the Beach.
Dance Black America : April 21-24, 1983
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12 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 71 libraries worldwide Lecture: Dance in Africa. Speaker: Pearl Primus. 4/21/83. (Ca. 64 min. total: ca. 59 min. on disc no. 3 and ca. five min. on disc no. 4.) Primus speaks about the concept of dance in general terms; speaks generally, and, at times, in abstract terms about dance in Africa, including its central role in African life, different types of dances, dance training, costumes and music; question and answer session including discussion of Primus's career [recording ends abruptly and continues on disc no. 4; ca. 5 min].
L'Orfeo favola in musica
by Claudio Monteverdi
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2 editions published between 2006 and 2011 in Italian and held by 63 libraries worldwide First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in May 1998, this production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement - described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen.
The Mahabharata. Part one, The game of dice
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
The Mahabharata. Part three, The War
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
The Mahabharata. Part two, Exile in the forest
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
Needcompany's King Lear
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2 editions published between 2001 and 2007 in Dutch and English and held by 20 libraries worldwide A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play King Lear.
From the New World : January 28, 29 and 30, 1994 : the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide
Brooklyn Academy of Music : a brief address and ten plates
by Brooklyn Academy of Music
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5 editions published in 1905 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
The Mahabharata Le Mahabharata
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1 edition published in 2005 in French and held by 14 libraries worldwide Ce "Grand poème du monde" raconte la violente querelle entre deux familles, les Pandavas et les Kauravas, qui se disputent pour régner sur le monde. Une énorme bataille qui déterminera le sort de l'univers.
American transcendentalists
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1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide
The BQE the original motion picture soundtrack
by Sufjan Stevens
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 10 libraries worldwide Sufjan Stevens is proud to present The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is an incidental 12.7 miles of urban roadway built over the course of several decades (1939-1964), spear-headed by the master architect Robert Moses to accommodate for the increase of commercial and commuter traffic in New York City's outer boroughs. The roadway was a painstaking piecemeal project, poorly planned, badly built, and relentlessly encumbered by the obvious obstacles of the era: red tape, neighborhood protests, World War II, and a congested borough whose sequestering layout proved ill-fitting for the automobile. The resulting expressway-a pockmarked, serpentine, congested BQE-has become one of Brooklyn's most notable icons of urban blight. And, for Sufjan Stevens, an object of unmitigated inspiration. The official album release of The BQE follows nearly two years after its original performance at BAM, providing the songwriter (and his various collaborators) ample time to wrestle out all the thematic incarnations of the project, and to attempt an appropriation of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work"). The resulting album might be best described as a grand creative franchise-incorporating movie, symphony, comic book, dissertation, photography, graphic design, and a 3-D Viewmaster® reel-in which a songwriter's interrogation of one of New York's ugliest landmarks expands athletically to forums and formulas outside of the song itself. In fact, the BQE is everything but a song. First and foremost, The BQE is a self-made home-movie documentation, exhibiting how all the architectural colors of Brooklyn and Queens are fabulously intersected by this ramshackle artery of highway traffic. Shot renegade style on do-it-yourself film cameras, the animated footage of grid-lock crisscrossing the brick and mortar of Brooklyn flickers and cascades Koyaanisqatsi-style on three simultaneous screens. The 16mm cinematography (heroically shot by Reuben Kleiner on a 1960s Bolex) utilizes time-lapse photography, in-camera editing, slow motion, and post-production mirror effects to transform urban blight into a splendor of graphic compositions. The BQE is also accompanied by an idiosyncratic musical soundtrack (composed by Stevens for band and chamber orchestra), evoking a romanticized musical choreography of perpetual motion vs. gridlock. Borrowing variously from Gershwin, Terry Riley, Charles Ives, and Autechre (to name a few), the music showcases skittish woodwinds wrestling out impressionist articulation (in 7/8) and imperial brass anthems evoking various incarnations of the music of the automobile.
The Mahabharata
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide The world of The Mahabharata is of profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn.
Atys : a lyric tragedy in a prologue and five acts
by Jean-Baptiste Lully
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide
Simon medley, performed by Twyla Tharp and Dancers : photographic prints
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9 editions published between 1977 and 1987 and held by 1 library worldwide Includes photographic rehearsal shots.
Baker's dozen, performed by Twyla Tharp and Dancers : slides
by Herbert Migdoll
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8 editions published between 1979 and 1987 and held by 1 library worldwide Includes slides from an unspecified performance.
Baker's dozen, performed by Twyla Tharp and Dancers : photographic prints
by Johan Elbers
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8 editions published between 1977 and 1984 and held by 1 library worldwide Includes photograph from the performance at Winter Garden Theatre, New York, 1980.
Sue's leg, performed by Twyla Tharp and Dancers : photographic prints
by Lois Greenfield
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17 editions published between 1976 and 1980 and held by 1 library worldwide Includes photographic prints from the premiere. more
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